2024
Sports Medicine
Using Powerlifting Athletes to Determine Strength Adaptations Across Ages in Males and Females: A Longitudinal Growth Modelling Approach
Studied: Competitive powerlifters across the age span, both sexes (large longitudinal dataset)
Tracking real competitive powerlifters across decades, older lifters who kept training continued gaining strength for years — women in their 60s and 70s were still improving, with only the oldest male group showing a very slight average decline.